I Exist - Basement show

I haven't gotten around to editing all the tour photos or video yet.
Here's some video of I Exist, Phantoms and Warbrain  playing a basement show yesterday.



Roots bloody roots intro, Inveiglement, Invert the son, One thousand hooves. Jake attempted an inverted cross head stand

I Exist - Tour blog 3

Overnight drive from Sydney to Brisbane, with an early morning stop at the big banana.

End of Tour

The tour was great. Every band killed it every night. Final show at the Sando sold out and was one of the best. Obviously I didn't put up many tour blogs, finding time and decent internet wasn't as easy as I'd hoped, so over the next couple of weeks or so I'll hopefully get all the photos from all the shows up. A couple of people had

I Exist - Tour blog 2

Ollie sings for Fixtures and is on the tour selling merch for Shai Hulud and just being a creep in general.

 But seriously Fixtures are really good, especially for a bunch of high school kids.

Hand of Mercy 

Before Josh 'JJ LaWhore' Nixon joined I Exist he was used to playing to bars full of drunken death metal fans in Blood Duster and Pod People, and I doubt he had ever actually played a youth centre show before. I've since been told Josh played to 1000 kids at civic youth center in 1990, when I was only four years old, so what would I know. Over these years he has honed his sarcastic metal stage presence to a fine art, something which went over the heads of most the underage crowd. "Who's this old dude flashing the horns all the time?" Josh went home after this show, he doesn't usually tour with the band so it was cool for him to do these shows, he'll be playing the Queanbeyan show on the 19th of May.

Jake was nice enough to let a small child named Caed sing the "woman" lines in the song 'Temptress'.

Shinto Katana had two car crashes this day before the show, no one was hurt, but they were all pretty pissed off as you'd expect. This didn't affect their live show, playing as heavy as they usually do and getting more kids to mosh than any of the other bands.

Shai Hulud are some of nicest american's I've ever met, I haven't really met many americans, but they're definatley not arrogant rockstar stereotypes.

The first show at Hot Damn was great and this show was just as good, different crowd, different atmosphere and the audience was really into all the bands. Shai Hulud ended their set by telling us they would play a Miles Away cover, but then playing Linoleum by NOFX, funny guys.

During this show while some of the other bands were playing Aaron took some time to teach Adrian Kelly, Phantoms guitarist, how to play a bunch of the I Exist songs. Kelly was jumping in the van to come along to the Queensland shows and Aaron had a spare guitar so why not teach him a full set in one night and expect him to play two shows the next day. It was hilarious watching these two play un-amped electric guitars outside under some trees lit only by the moonlight. Immediately after the show we drove overnight to Queensland.

Before the show I Exist wandered around a bit in newtown and went to a guitar store, then played some frisbee. We didn't do much at all this day.

Jake took this photo

 Jarred took this photo

I Exist - Tour blog 1

Day1 by Jake Willoughby

So I got out of Canberra just in time. JJ LaWhore shared a magical bag session with me not too long before we left. The ride up was a study of truck driver signals and etiquette, there was some Big Business and Dr. Octagon.
Arriving in Oxford street in only two and-a-half hours, I congratulated LaWhore and we loaded in.
Never played at Spectrum, never been. It was alright for a nightclub venue, although the stage was really small. I'm glad we didn't have Al-Bro to fit as well.
Some drink cards where expended for the golden liquors of Mexico.

Shinto Katana

Shai Hulud

At the end of the Shai Hulud set they were going to play Bulldozed but then instead played Linoleum and I lost my tour pass as a result of being trampled. Now I'm probably going to have to pay to get in to my own shows. JJ is going to give me his after he goes home.
Tonight was not a party but instead a mellow hang at Jimmi Jimmi James'.
Paddy hasn't made the Hemplar Knights back patch yet.
Not keen to be driving to QLD tomorrow night.
-Jake Willoughby.

New I Exist merch

This is the second time I've been to Hot Damn, I find it really hard to shoot shows here, there's barely any room to set up my lights and finding a place to shoot from is a challenge. I clamped one light onto the back wall to the right of the drummer and had one on a stand stage left as far towards the front as possible. Most of the show i was shooting right in front of the left side of the stage, later I got told off for standing on one of the tables while taking photos. I Exist opened with a brand new song, one that's not even on the new album, they got a great reaction from the crowd. Shinto played and everyone moshed, and Shai Hulud were really really great. Some people had doubts about the new singer, but within one song it was obvious they were still Shai Hulud and that it was going to be a great set. Next is St Ives and an overnight drive to Queensland, followed by two shows in one day.
- John Hatfield

I Exist tour with Shai Hulud

I'll be here. Except for Newcastle.

Observer are playing the Canberra show at Queanbeyan.

I Exist plays an indie house party

I Exist played with a bunch of hipster bands at a house warming party for a friend in Canberra. The show wasn't really advertised, people who knew they were playing were mainly friends of the band, but there were a lot of people there who wouldn't normally be exposed to I Exist or hardcore in general. A fight almost broke out a one point (see video below), Sean attempted to start a spit parti and many people tried stage diving of tables. Lit this very differently (and poorly) to other shows, both lights as back lights at either side of the band.